The AGC Ser/Thr kinase Aga1 is essential for appressorium formation and maintenance of the actin cytoskeleton in the smut fungus Ustilago maydis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1484-1499

  Berndt, Patrick ^a   Lanver, Daniel ^a   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; LATRUNCULIN A; PROTEIN AGA1; PROTEIN AGC; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN YPK1P; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DELETION MUTANT; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMUT (PLANT DISEASE); USTILAGO MAYDIS;

ACTINS; CYTOSKELETON; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PLANT DISEASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 78650002245     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07422.x     Document Type: Article

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